Emerson's Protégés: Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future

Part I Prized progeny

1 Emerson's hero: mentoring Margaret Fuller

2 Henry David Thoreau: a poet's apprenticeship

Part II Trafficking in art

3 Christopher Cranch: finding the painter in the poet

4 Samuel Gray Ward: a financier's aesthetic

Part III Reckless romantics

5 Ellery Charming: Saturday afternoon professor; or, Concord's mad poet

6 Jones Very: a poet's zeal

7 Charles King Newcomb: Emerson's dark apprentice.